2018 ProSPER.Net Young Researchers’ School
Applications have now closed for the 2018 ProSPER.Net Young Researchers’ School (YRS) on Sustainable Urban Development for the World’s Megacities, to be held 4-11 March 2018 in Kanagawa, Japan. Thank you to all of those who applied.
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
We would like to wish you all a Happy Holidays and a prosperous New Year!
Please note that the ProSPER.Net Secretariat will be closed during the UNU’s official vacation period (21 December, 2017 – 2 January, 2018). We will process your requests and emails when we return in the New Year.
As Communications Associate for the ESD team, I have been serving the RCE Network and ProSPER.Net for almost four years. It is time for me to move on, and I would like to take this opportunity to say goodbye to all of you, whom I have had the pleasure to work with and to interact.
Mark Your Calendar! ProSPER.Net Forum on Sustainability in Higher Education 2018. Prince of Songkla University (PSU), Thailand in collaboration with UNU-IAS, and Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) will hold the ProSPER.net Forum on Sustainability in Higher Education ‘Higher Education and Research in a Changing Climate: Science-Policy-Society Interface’, on 24-26 January 2018, Hat Yai, Thailand.
ProSPER.Net Project: Sustainable and Social Entrepreneurship – A Curriculum
ProSPER.Net Outlines How to Build a Modular Course
Launched in 2010, the Sustainable Business and Social Responsibility Course Development project has delivered a useful and practical framework to develop course materials and case studies in its respective fields.
2017 ProSPER.Net Leadership Concludes: Incorporating the 5Ps in Sustainability
The 5th ProSPER.Net Leadership Programme ‘Building Transformational Leadership Towards the Sustainable Development Goals’ was held on 29 June – 5 July 2017, at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
ProSPER.Net Young Researchers’ School Outcomes
Sixteen PhD students from eleven ProSPER.Net institutions from nine countries around Asia and the Pacific journeyed to Ho Chi Minh City for the 2017 YRS. They learned firsthand from local and international experts about the impacts of climate change, sea level rise, and unsustainable water use in the region. The latest reports of each field trip, research proposals and all presentations have now ben uploaded on ProSPER.Net.